Also spendy business items can wind up being lemons. This is something [Mike Buss] recognizes with, as he had the bad luck of being stuck using what he declares is the world’s worst USB hub, and also it’s not also an enigma discount rate gadget from abroad: it’s an HP Thunderbolt Dock G2. It is a type of mix I/O dock and also USB center, and also it triggered him numberless irritation up until he “repaired” it with an unrefined workaround.
The issues with [Mike]’s dock boil down to 2 significant problems. The very first is that the USB-C link will, if relocated also the tiniest quantity, immediately set off a detach from the host computer system. Truthfully, that seems like an issue, however that’s not all. The various other concern is that the entire top of the gadget is in fact a titan, hyper-sensitive switch. Also a demanding look appears to be sufficient to create it to trigger. What does the switch do? It places the host computer system to rest; something that most of us concur need to deal with as couple of incorrect activations as feasible.
We’ll ruin the shock by exposing that the “solution” was absolutely nothing greater than placing a 3D published unit around the frustrating gadget, as displayed in the photo over. Maintaining the dock covered and also completely still a minimum of avoids both abovementioned problems, which’s excellent sufficient for [Mike].
The interested component of all this is simply exactly how severely the gadget’s layout impacted typical usage. We would certainly think an issue or breakdown, however a brief search of evaluations on the internet recommends [Mike]’s experience isn’t special. It’s absolutely not the very first poorly-designed item we have actually seen repaired by a brand-new unit, however some issues simply aren’t worth the initiative of an extra stylish service.
